Monthly Archives: December 2016

13 Dec 2016

Deadline: 31 December 2016 Entry fee: €12 per poem Launched in 2011, The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize has quickly established itself as one of the most sought after prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. Every year, a...

13 Dec 2016

PEN SA member Jim Pascual Agustin has been named the winner of the Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation and Multi-lingual Texts. The Prize is managed by Antioch University through its online journal, Lunch Ticket. Agustin was awarded the prize...

13 Dec 2016

Deadline: 31 January 2016 Prize: “There is a cash prize of £10,000 for the winning author and a travel award for each of the short-listed candidates (up to five in all). The shortlisted candidates will also receive a Prize of...

12 Dec 2016

Novelist, essayist and translator Bigeldy Gabdullin, aged 61, the current President of the Kazakh PEN Club, was arrested on 15 November 2016 in connection with extortion charges. Gabdullin attracted state attention in his work as a journalist in the 1990s...

12 Dec 2016

Deadline: 29 January 2017 Entries are now open for the 2017 Bodley Head/Financial Times Essay Prize. The inaugural prize was won by PEN SA member Hedley Twidle for his 2012 essay ‘Getting Past Coetzee‘. The winner of the 2017 Prize...

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